Paromoionchis tumidus
Appearance
Paromoionchis tumidus | |
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Dorsal view of Paromoionchis tumidus in the mud (head is on the right). | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Systellommatophora |
Family: | Onchidiidae |
Genus: | Paromoionchis |
Species: | P. tumidus
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Binomial name | |
Paromoionchis tumidus (Semper, 1880)
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Paromoionchis tumidus is a species of small, air-breathing sea slug, a shell-less marine pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidiidae.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Paromoionchis tumidus is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific from Japan in the north, to Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, the Andaman Islands, Indonesia, and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland).[1]
Synonymized names
[edit]The following names have been synonymized with Paromoionchis tumidus:[1]
- Onchidium samarense Semper, 1880
- Onchidium mertoni Simroth, 1918
- Onchidium hongkongense Britton, 1984
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Dayrat, Benoît; Goulding, Tricia C.; Khalil, Munawar; Apte, Deepak; Bourke, Adam J.; Comendador, Joseph; Tan, Shau Hwai (22 February 2019). "A new genus and three new species of mangrove slugs from the Indo-West Pacific (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Euthyneura: Onchidiidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (500). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.500. ISSN 2118-9773.
External links
[edit]- Video of Paromoionchis tumidus in its natural environment on YouTube (under the synonymized name Onchidium hongkongense).